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August 14, 2018

Our children in international schools

Al-Watan newspaperIN the past, Arabs used to send their children to villages to spend their childhood, giving them an opportunity to master the dialects. The interaction with villagers allowed the child to use the language in daily life situations, which would reflect positively throughout their life.This tradition has contributed to the enrichment of the children's language skills. As a result, they were able to create a generation proficient in the ...

August 14, 2018

Is Test cricket doomed?

The second Test match against England at Lord’s has seen further heartache for the Indian team which went into the five match series with the top ICC Test match ranking, ahead of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. A long-lackluster England held fifth place. But with two defeats, the Indian team has a lot of rebuilding to do, and quickly. Captain Virat Kohli said he is “not proud” of the ...

August 13, 2018

The doctors and their patients

Makkah newspaperA SAUDI newspaper recently published a study, which revealed that doctors listen to their patients an average of 11 seconds before prescribing medicines. There is truth in this number, but at the same time it is an unfair estimate. I believe this number is true in most cases but it is untrue in other cases as there are doctors who listen and speak to their patients up to11 minutes ...

August 13, 2018

It will not be long before we have news about commercial space projects and economic access to Mars. While some see such projects as far-fetched, others believe that the future will present us with amazing economic opportunities in space.Behind many of these projects are three of the most successful businessmen in the world: Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla; Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and now the richest man ...

August 13, 2018

South Sudan deal: Hopes and misgivings

Thousands of residents of South Sudan’s capital Juba are celebrating a peace deal signed by President Salva Kiir and his ousted deputy Riek Machar, which rekindles hope that the guns will finally fall silent in a country devastated by civil war.A combination of vicious conflict, drought and famine has been making the situation in the world’s youngest nation especially grim since 2013 when a Kiir-Machar tussle for power degenerated into ...

August 12, 2018

Malaysia should not quit over Flight MH370

Even though there were only four French nationals aboard Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 when it disappeared more than four years ago, French aviation authorities want to open a new investigation after the Malaysians shuttered theirs.While there is yet to be an official announcement of the investigation from the French government, according to a report in Le Parisien newspaper, the Gendarmerie of Air Transport wants to examine data from satellite operator ...

August 12, 2018

Women prisoners without families

Okaz newspaperTHE world is making efforts to reduce the number of prisoners because the high costs of punishing, reforming and refining inmates lie on the shoulders of the governments.I fully back the proposal to dry up prisons especially as the crimes of a large number of the inmates did not cause any heavy damage to society. The prison terms in their cases should have been substituted by community service, which ...

Rashida

August 11, 2018

America’s first Muslim woman in Congress

Rashida Tlaib is not a household name and might never become one but she has landed in the history books by becoming the first Muslim woman elected to the US Congress. Even though Tlaib won the Democratic primary on Tuesday, her Congressional seat is not guaranteed, but with no Republicans on the ballot in the overwhelmingly Democratic district in and around Detroit, Tlaib will run unopposed in the general election ...

August 10, 2018

Strong evidence of bestial crimes

IT is just one of the many insanities of the terrorists of Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) that they made video recordings of their horrific crimes and published them on the Internet. They hailed these monstrous images as brilliant and compelling propaganda, which proved to the world that they were ruthless and unstoppable. Well, “ruthless” these thugs definitely have been, but “unstoppable”, they have not. Their spurious claim to some sort of ...

August 9, 2018

Al-Riyadh newspaperORGAN transplantation is no longer a difficult or rare process. However, it still faces an age-old problem: the probability of organ rejection. This occurs when the transplanted tissue is rejected by the recipient’s immune system, which destroys the transplanted tissue mistaking it for an invasive foreign body.The immune system is our first defense against from viruses, bacteria and any foreign body that might harm us or cause us to ...